USS Onondaga (1864)
Onondaga at anchor on the James River, Virginia, circa 1864-65
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Onondaga |
| Namesake: | A lake and county in New York |
| Ordered: | 26 May 1862 |
| Builder: | Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn |
| Laid down: | 1862 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1863 |
| Sponsored by: | Sally Sedgwick |
| Commissioned: | 24 March 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 June 1865 |
| Fate: | Sold 7 March 1867 to her builder, G. W. Quintard, and subsequently resold to France |
 France
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| Name: | Onondaga |
| Acquired: | 7 March 1867 |
| Commissioned: | 15 June 1869 |
| Struck: | 2 December 1904 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1904 |
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| Type: | Double-turreted river monitor |
| Tonnage: | 1,250 tons (bm) |
| Displacement: | 2,592 long tons (2,634 t) |
| Length: | 226 ft (68.9 m) (o/a) |
| Beam: | 51 ft 5 in (15.7 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 10 in (3.9 m) |
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| Speed: | 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 130 officers and enlisted men |
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USS Onondaga was a river monitor built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The ship spent her entire active career with the James River Flotilla, covering the water approaches to Richmond, Virginia, during the last year of the Civil War. After the war, she was purchased by France.
Onondaga – the first U.S. Navy ship to bear the name – was a double-turreted monitor launched 29 July 1863. She was built at the Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, under subcontract from George W. Quintard who built her engines at his neighboring Morgan Iron Works. She was sponsored by Sally Sedgwick, daughter of former U.S. Representative Charles B. Sedgwick and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 24 March 1864, with Captain Melancthon Smith in command.
With USS Mattabesett, the ship departed New York, New York, 21 April 1864, and arrived at Hampton Roads two days later. Assigned to the James River Flotilla, Onondaga supported General Ulysses S. Grant's drive on Richmond, Virginia. On 24 November, together with the monitor USS Mahopac, she engaged Confederate artillery batteries on the James River at Howlett’s Farm, Virginia, and resumed the attack 5 and 6 December.
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